List 3 mindful reading strategies
preread, make marginal notes, skip, draw pictures, summarize, self-monitor, write your reading (with eyes closed), t-charts
List 3 characteristics that create the genre of fortune cookie messages.
1. short
2. unknown, wise author
3. warning, affirmation, guidance in short pithy statement
What was the example used in the book for why rhetorical decisions matter?
Army granted petition of Jackson's friend to defer tour of duty and complete his Master of Divinity.
What is the Greek name for Character?
Ethos
What is the greek name for Emotion?
Pathos
Fill in the blank:
“When I think about style as a quality of writing, I like to think of it in both these ways. Every time you write, you write with -------. You can’t help it. Each sentence you write reflects a series of --------- decisions, a sensibility, even if the writing seems straightforward and unadorned."
style
rhetorical
List 3 ways writing will help you in the future
effectively communicate over any medium, better understand effective arguments, make stronger arguments, infuse your arguments with balance and grace, etc.
Who is the rhetor in this image?
BYU
BYU ballard center
BYU Marriott School
Manager of BYU Ballard Center instagram account
What is the Greek word for Argument?
Logos
Jack***
a rhetor that needed to be booed
jerk
thoughtless
overreactive
True of False:
"Arguments with emotional appeals are more effective than primarily or exclusively logical arguments."
True
List 3 elements to your stylistic workout regimen.
If you (not a prophet) are writing a General Conference talk, who is your audience? How does knowing your audience affect what you say?
1. Audience is largely members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but could also be non-members invited to listen.
2. Understanding the global nature of church membership reminds you to approach topics that are focused on primary beliefs that unite the entire congregation of saints.
What is an argument? What is it not?
An argument is a "collective series of statements to establish a definite proposition...an intellectual process."
It is NOT simple contradiction.
List 3 symbols of an already established character? What visual cues let you know that the speaker has experience in the topic?
Lab coat, stethoscope, business attire, chemist goggles, letters behind name
What are the two components of Emotional Intelligence?
Identifying emotions (in self and others) and influencing emotions (also in self and others).
What were some stylistic elements we noticed in Brian Doyle's work?
Define Kairos
"The opportune or fitting moment"
"psychological timeliness"
What is the purpose of a rhetor writing fortune cookie messages?
Allow audience to feel anticipation of good fortune or warm gratification at receiving wise words.
What are the three components of an argument?
Fill in the blank:
"...ethos strategy is often called ------------. As a writer, you want your audience to feel like you have their best interests in mind."
goodwill
Fill in the blank:
Emotions are "strategies for getting along in the world" a "means of motivating, guiding, influencing, and sometimes ------------- our own actions and attitudes as well as influencing and ---------------- the actions and attitudes of others."
manipulating, manipulating
(We preferred the word "persuading")
Who wrote this? What were elements of his style (and character) we pointed out?
"We are all on the same path, and they’re simply figuring out for themselves what we must all figure out—that for whatever religious, moral, or ethical prescriptions we were or were not taught as children, the art of true goodness is a type of human divinity, and we must evolve toward it."
Joey Franklin
Humor, self-deprecation, connect with audience, personal experience
What is the difference between a phrase and a clause?
a phrase is just a bunch of words
a clause is a noun and a verb
What is the exigence of this post?
Exigence: Current rupture in Afghanistan that is increasing the number of refugees and their need for support.
Analyze the following argument and include a counter-claim:
Horses are pointless because we have technology that does everything they used to do for us.
Claim: Horses are pointless
Reason: We have tech to replace them
Assumption: Horses are only good for transportation
Counter-claim: Horses have many uses outside of transportation and are still valuable to many people today.
List 3 ways you can invent Character.
Do your homework, use personal experience, show balance, relate to your audience with kindness, connection and good content, be gracious, recognize your bias, don't take yourself too seriously.
List 3 ways you can evoke emotion in readers.
Imitate this sentence:
The Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs were taking a lively interest in the outcome, for they, of course, would be playing both teams over the coming year; and the Heads of House of the competing teams, though they attempted to disguise it under a decent pretense of sportsmanship, were determined to see their side’s victory. (J.K. Rowling, The Order of the Phoenix)
Share your sentence with a partner.